🦾 Our life is frittered away by detail

Simplify, simplify, simplify!

Colin Stuckert

Mar 12, 2022

Better Human,

Simplify. Simplify. Simplify.

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!” -Thoreau

Like this newsletter, it’s the constant subtraction that results in the best format, not adding.

Michaleago said, “The idea is locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.“

This is true for everything. The perfect rocket going to Mars is some combination of the least amount of materials put together that will safely make the trip, and not an ounce more.

Your life satisfaction is found in doing fewer things but deeper.

Your best work output is from the few things that really matter—the 80/20 law. Most of what you spend your time on is wasted. So continually whittle away until you are spending most of your most productive time on the few things that matter.

Less is more. Fewer is better. Simple is best.

<3 Colin

📰 News and Stuff 🚨

I’ll be soon moving the politics to my new newsletter The Better Money Show. Subscribe here to get that when I start sending it.

Allison Fox, MSN, FNP @Oupavia

I regret voting for Joe Biden.

Charles V Payne @cvpayne

So the Biden White House would rather go to Venezuela and Iran for more oil than allow American producers the chance to build out sustainable crude oil projects that would be cheaper and cleaner sources while creating jobs. Do they hate oil or the Americans working in oil patch?

🤡 Facebook allows war posts urging violence against Russian invaders

🔥 Useful $HIT CORNER 🔥

🥦 On this day in 2009, American hedge-fund investment manager Bernie Madoff pled guilty to various crimes related to his operation of a Ponzi scheme that was one of the largest in the world; he was sentenced to 150 years in prison.

🦾 How to be dangerous → Deadlift your bodyweight. Get up to 10 strict pull-ups and 10 pistol squats. You’ll be in the 1% of fit humans.

🍳 Cooking → Try some flank steak, skirt steak, and tri-tip. These are flavorful and tender and not super expensive.

🌞 Health → Getting outside for 1-2 hours a day is more important than we realize. Imagine if one thing you could do could improve every metric for physical and mental health, would you prioritize that. That’s nature for ya.

⌨️ Productivity → I struggle not getting ahead of myself. When I think of recording a video, I make a list of 5 video ideas. When I think of a book, I end up writing out an idea for 3. So on and so forth. I’m working on doing just ONE THING at a time and making my focus to make that ONE THING THE BEST IT CAN BE. That’s how you produce great work, I think.

🦾 A principle for life → Ask more questions, make fewer statements. This is hard to develop if you’re one that likes to talk. Figure out how to remind yourself before you have a conversation. Ask more questions. Use the Socratic method. It’s so damn powerful.

🔗 Link worth clicking → 069: CARLY’S FAVORITE: Mold Detox: Everything You Might Not Know About Mold’s Threat to Your Health with Dr. Jill Crista → Our house has water damage. I’ve been feeling like shit lately. It might be connected. I’m digging in.

💬 Quote → “Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.” -Epictetus

💲 Bitcoin → Awesome Bitcoin resource thread